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Chennai, NFAPost: Women’s apparel retailer Madame has announced the launch of six new stores seeing demand pick-up in the Tier II cities across India. Of these six stores, one store will be located in the Crown Mall of Lucknow and the other five will be high-street stores based in Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, and Delhi (NCR).
Currently, Madame has over 150 exclusive stores spread across India. Madame has recently launched a 700 sq ft store at Phoenix Palassio, Lucknow in the end of July 2020.
Madame Executive Director Akhil Jain said, “Women’s apparel has seen a growing demand in recent weeks, and Tier II city store walk-ins are at 60% pre-Covid levels. We foresee demand to get better by October coming to almost 75% footfalls as of last year. Meeting consumer expectations is not an overnight job and we have invested in creating trust with our customers over the years and maintaining great relationships with customers even during Covid. This is what is showing growth for us.”
He added, “Our online sales have accelerated during the lockdown through Glamly.com and other online platforms to almost 2x. We will also be investing more in online promotions in the run-up to the festive season. While many others are contracting their marketing spends, we are redirecting a larger chunk of the budget towards digital.”
The brand recently told the NFAPost that it will be coming up with omni-channel soon. This will also help take the Madame buying experience right to the customer’s doorstep.
Launched in 1993, the fashion brand caters to a wide range of Apparel, Handbags, Footwear’s & Accessories for women. Since the launch of its first store in 2002, the brand has rapidly expanded across the country and it retails in over 500 Multi-Brand and Large Format Stores. The brand is retailed through online marketplaces including Myntra, Ajio, Flipkart, and Amazon, and additionally, the brand has set up its own online store at Glamly.com.


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Dow leaders hint at deal involving Dow Corning Corp.
Updated 7:00 am, Friday, October 23, 2015
Executive leaders of The Dow Chemical Co. had plenty to say about key company achievements but provided little information about the future of Dow Corning Corp. during Thursday’s earnings conference call.
Chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris was joined by Howard Ungerleider, Dow’s chief financial officer who was recently made vice chairman as part of a restructuring of the company’s executive team.
Liveris said Dow has “overachieved our targets and there is no gap between what we said and what we did.” He added that Dow’s large assets are commencing commitment phases and wrapping up business transactions.
“We anticipate no new mega projects within these next five years,” Liveris said.
Liveris said the company is in discussion for “a potential transaction regarding Corning’s ownership.”
Earlier Thursday, Liveris said the current joint venture structure no longer “makes sense” as Dow Corning’s two parent companies, Dow Chemical and Corning Inc., continue to evolve their portfolios. Liveris elaborated that both partners know Dow Corning from the inside out, and said it has become a “much more logical bid on the market side.”
“We will have more to say on this in the not too distant future,” Liveris said.
Dow officials provided some more information about the recently completed transaction with Olin Corp. on Oct. 5, which Ungerleider described as a “win-win-win for Dow, Olin and shareholders of both companies.”
Though Liveris warned those on the call to “not over-read” into information provided by a separate press release Thursday, he said he is excited about the new executive leadership council.
“It’s a very strong team,” said Liveris, describing himself and Ungerleider, as well as Chief Operating Officer Jim Fitterling, also a newly appointed vice chairman. “We’ve had this team in place for a long time now. The three of us run the company in terms of the big decisions and the big operational decisions.”
Also discussed was the company’s move to increase its dividend by 10 percent, from 42 cents to 46 cents per share in the fourth quarter, for the highest annualized dividend in Dow’s history.
“This management team has a very large focus on return on capital,” Ungerleider said.
Portfolio goals like a change in structure for Kuwait joint ventures, increased production for investments on the U.S. Gulf Coast and in Saudi Arabia, and the potential for deals related to Dow AgroSciences, were also discussed.
The restructuring of Kuwait joint ventures will yield cash and will lead to growth, Liveris said, adding that its joint venture Sadara has already sold out on its preliminary product. He said the companies should be thought of as a “cash flow machine these next couple of years” and that it will be returned to Dow shareholders.
Liveris ended the call with an emphasis on how proud he was of the announcements made by Dow and the promises kept to shareholders.
“We have the team to drive this company for the next five to 10 years in place, I’m very proud of that,” Liveris said. “We are in the position now of talking about the next two to three years with great clarity.”
Included in the report was specific information about Dow’s business segments.
This segment reported third quarter sales of $1.2 billion, down by $200 million compared to last year’s figure. Dow cited lower crop commodity prices in Latin America, high channel inventories and “significant” currency headwinds for the decrease in sales.
Both Crop Protection and Seeds reported decreased sales, while demand stayed strong for new product technologies like the Isoclast insecticide. Earnings before certain factors for this segment came in at a loss of $39 million, compared with a loss of $15 million last year at this time.
“We do expect ongoing weakness to continue over the next 12 to 24 months,” Ungerleider said about the recent transaction involving AgroFresh and how it would affect the AgSciences segment.
Sales for the third quarter period in Consumer Solutions was down from $1.2 billion last year to $1.1 billion this year, as high sales demand for automotive and semiconductor market solutions was offset by global currency headwinds.
Some businesses reported sales volume growth, like Dow Automotive Systems and Consumer Care. Earnings before certain factors came in at $289 million, compared to $283 last year at this time.
This segment had third quarter sales of $1.9 billion, down from $2.2 billion compared to last year’s figure, due to “lower prices in all businesses and currency headwinds,” the report stated.
Dow Building and Construction is reporting volume growth in most geographic areas, with an all-time record for quarterly operating earnings before certain factors, and was helped along by innovative products like flame-retardant licensing and demand for GREAT STUFF products in North America.
The plan is for flame-retardant clothing technology to start going global, Ungerleider said.
“We see that continuing to expand over time,” Ungerleider said.
PERFORMANCE MATERIALS AND CHEMICALS
Performance Materials and Chemicals reported third quarter sales of $3.1 billion, a decrease from last year’s figure of $3.9 billion. Dow cited strong sales volume as offset by global pricing pressures and currency headwinds.
Included in the report was information about the Dow Chlorine Products transaction with Olin Corp., which received a tax-efficient consideration value of $5 billion.
Both equity earnings and operating earnings before certain factors were down in this segment, affected by the impact of divestitures and lower monoethylene glycol pricing.
This segment reported third quarter sales at $4.7 billion, a loss of $1 billion from last year’s sales of $5.7 billion. The sales were accompanied by sales volume expansion across all businesses.
Operating earnings before certain factors were at an all-time quarterly record of $1.3 billion, an increase of 8 percent or $100 million from last year’s $1.2 billion. This record was attributed to “robust demand in all businesses and margin expansion” in Europe, Middle East, Africa and India.
To view the third quarter earnings report, visit http://bit.ly/1RqDZmH.

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Americans don't want to haggle over car prices. According to Autolist, 48% of shoppers say negotiating a price while buying is the worst part of going to the car dealer, and 42% fear getting ripped off. This could help explain why Costco's Auto Program, which arranges no-haggle car-buying discounts for members, is growing in popularity. But is it a good deal, and how does it work? Read on to discover whether Costco is the best place to buy your next set of wheels.
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The deal values Etro at about 500 million euros ($590 million), confirming reports in Italian newspapers La Repubblica and Il Sole 24 Ore. In a statement, an Etro representative said that L Catterton was taking a majority stake in the company, while the Etro family would retain "a significant minority interest". The statement did not go into specifics and gave no financial details.
Gerolamo Etro, who founded the company in 1968, will be the chairman and the deal is set to be closed by the end of the year, the statement said.
"We are thrilled to be working with the L Catterton team who will bring their in-depth knowledge of the fashion sector and an experience in the international development of important brands, allowing our company to reach new heights," the firm said.
One of the sources said Etro's four children would stay on as shareholders with a 40% stake and would remain owners of Etro's real estate property and directly operated stores. L Catterton recently bought German sandal maker Birkenstock. LVMH, which owns a string of Italian labels including jeweller Bulgari, also boosted its stake in Italian luxury shoemaker Tod's to 10% in April.


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Just another shameless plug. Friday, December 1 is the start of the Dwell on Design Palm Springs conference thing. As mentioned previously, we will be attempting to liveblog the event. You can still register at the Dwell web site which is now offering a new conference ticket and architecture tour ticket. Details for all tickets for Dwell on Design can be found at www.dwellondesign.com
Don't forget, Curbed readers who register for Dwell on Design Palm Springs will receive a $75 discount off of the full conference ticket price. Use Curbed code CURBED when registering.
ALSO, according to the press people, photographer Julius Shulman will be at the event this weekend as will architect Frank Escher who will be doing a brief talk and John Lautner book-signing at Elrod House.


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Noah Wrubel, chairman and chief executive officer of Bare Necessities, a brick-and-mortar and Internet lingerie retailer, presented a seminar last Wednesday on how brands and companies can boost business in tough times.
The event, “Getting Intimate with the Internet,” hosted by the Intimate Apparel Council division of the American Apparel & Footwear Association at the Grand Hyatt New York hotel, also focused on the success of Bare Necessities’ 10-year-old online business.
Wrubel, who launched Bare Necessities in 1997, a year before going online, told the 75 executives in attendance that the $35 million company has generated yearly compounded sales growth of more than 70 percent for the past 10 years. Barenecessities.com garnered the 49th position on the Top 500 Guide of apparel e-tailers.
“We do everything ourselves, from selecting the merchandise to designing the Web site and creating the text to fulfillment and shipping,” said Wrubel. “Today, we are the largest purveyor of men’s underwear online. We have one million visitors a month, have sold 2.75 million bras and 1.9 million panties, and we have half a million e-mail subscribers.”
He added that the site offers 125 innerwear brands, as well as 226 bra sizes, ranging from 28DD to 58C.
“Part of what we do is deciding what to carry and not to carry, and that has put us in a good stead over the years,” Wrubel said. “In 2008, we launched our first catalogue. But what I didn’t know was we were entering an economic tsunami.”
Wrubel noted that 1.5 million catalogues were mailed last year.
He said the secret to the company’s success is that staff members remained merchants, not tech geeks.
“We decided we were retailers, and that thought was a great way to sell lingerie,” he said. “We believe the shopping experience online is a separate experience than a branding experience or a Web experience. We want to sell product and get customers moving through the process quickly.
“The only thing we don’t do is manufacture the product,” he said. “Almost every contact we have with every customer is to ask for some feedback. It goes to everybody at the company and every morning my e-mail box is filled with customer comments. We try to fulfill customer comments, no matter how trivial. We never forget that the customer is king.”
Regarding best-selling categories, Wrubel said, “Better [price] bras do a good business. Women who buy bras in the $50, $60, $70 and $80 range are still buying bras. And shapewear is growing unbelievably online. I think it’s arrived as a product category unto itself. It’s no longer a segment. Women now think of the shapewear piece they want to wear when they buy apparel.”
@chanel and @pharrell dropped what’s being dubbed as the world’s most exclusive sneakers yesterday. The Adidas Originals NMD Hu, which Williams designed in collaboration with Chanel and @adidasoriginals, has a waiting list of over 120K people who pre-registered online at chanelatcolette.fr –– and only 500 pairs are on sale. The singer predicted the resale value of the shoes could reach $40K. Read the full interview on WWD.com. Link in bio. #wwdfashion
@imanshumpert is diving deeper into his creative endeavors and relaunching his clothing line, Post 90s, and is helping to raise money for the hurricane victims in St. Maarten with a jersey he’s designed with his brother. The Cleveland Cavaliers player talked to WWD about kneeling during the national anthem, working with fashion brands and how he wants to be more than an @nba player. Read the interview on WWD.com #wwdfashion (📷: George Chinese)
Not only does #TheProfit return to CNBC tonight, but @marcuslemonis has launched @shopmarcus, a new shopping and lifestyle retail experience in Aspen and Chicago, with more locations to come. The retail stores offer in-store stylists and a variety of contemporary womenswear selections.
“It’s life, I’m going to face it,” @mingxi11 sighed. “I fell, but you know, I think the most important thing is that I get back up. I had the love, the help from my sister — the girl next to me Gizele [Oliveira] — she’s so nice. When I went backstage everybody was trying to comfort me like ‘Oh Ming, it’s OK.’ I’m really, really touched. I think it’s them who gave me the courage to go back on stage for the finale,” Xi told WWD of her fall at the @victoriassecret fashion show. (📷: David Fisher) #wwdfashion #vsfashionshow #victoriassecret
@louisvuitton tapped @therealpeterlindbergh for its latest city-centric photo book, which is part of a series called Fashion Eye. The primarily black and white book captures the spirit of Berlin in 57 images shot between 1989 and 2019. “Berlin is an inspiration for me, more than a city. I mean @millajovovich is simply Berlin!” said Lindbergh. #wwdfashion
“You know, I think audiences expect a certain performance so I have to deliver to them what they’re expecting to a certain degree. But I’m also a different actor and a different person, I have my own spin on the character,” says @noahegalvin of his takeover of the leading role in “Dear Evan Hansen” following the departure of @bensplatt, who originated the role. Read WWD’s interview with the 23-year-old actor on WWD.com #wwdeye (📷: @jilliansollazzo)
For pre-fall 2018, @etro created richly-colored wonderland, using tapestries, textiles and wallpapers from the Eastern world at large. The line featured floral and graphic prints and jacquard motifs, like this two-piece look featured here. #wwdfashion (📷: Giovanna Pavesi)
@kith is moving into children’s. The men’s and women’s streetwear brand has launched Kidset, a Kith kids line located in New York at 64 Bleecker Street. The line includes mini versions of staple Kith pieces like the Astor bomber jacket and the Kith box logo sweatshirts, along with a wall that can display up to 120 pairs of shoes from @adidas, @newbalance, @timberland and more. #wwdfashion
“I just wanted to create this fully rounded character, but I do think what excited me most was just the opportunity to give a group of people representation that I feel needs it. I like to do characters in projects that stand for something and Karolina definitely does, so that was really exciting to me,” @ginnygardner says of her new role in @hulu’s “The Runaways.” Gardner plays Karolina Dean, a queer superhero, which is a rarity for @marvel. Read more about Gardner’s character on WWD.com #wwdeye (📷: @dandoperalski)


text: Imagine you think you have a cough or cold or a sore body ache which seem very similar to some of the swine flu symptoms mentioned by the media. What do you do? You open the government's Swine Flu website and scroll down to your state's helpline. Well turns out if you're from Maharasthra there isn't a helpline at all. Which is ironic considering that Maharashtra has the most number of swine flu cases in the country. Ever since the swine flu menace reared its ugly head Govt health officials have repeatedly said that there is nothing to 'worry about'.


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My first love was a pair of Birkenstocks. I was on the brink of tweenhood taking cues from the cool older kids at my school, where, seemingly, one shoe was part of the mandated uniform: the Birkenstock Boston clog. The teens of the time insisted on wearing these so much that the principal eventually accepted the backless shoe as a viable option. I never looked back after that.
The Boston clogs of my youth have since been buried in the depths of my childhood home, and my love for Birkenstock took on a new form with the brand’s Arizona sandals (I now own three pairs and counting). But now, I want my Bostons back. I thought buying a new pair to call my own would be simple, and then I was faced with the rude awakening that the style, specifically in the Taupe colorway, is out of stock almost everywhere.
While the classic clog has been around for ages, it’s had a particular resurgence over the past year. Blame it on the trail of collaborations with luxury designers like Valentino, Manolo Blahnik, Proenza Schouler, and Rick Owens, or the need for all things comfort in a post-pandemic world, but this humble, podiatrist-approved shoe has now become one of the hottest must-have items of the moment. It was even named the Shoe of the Year in Lyst’s 2022 Year in Fashion report.
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If that wasn’t enough to convince you that the Birks are back—and in a major way—the number of people looking for the shoe on resale platforms like StockX has also surged. According to the StockX Big Facts: 2022 Trends report, searches for the “Birkenstock Boston” silhouette went up a whopping 741 percent compared to last year. After seeing the rise in popularity over the year, the platform, which had previously only listed the brand’s collaboration styles, added the classic Boston to its catalog to meet the demand.
StockX isn’t the only resale platform that’s seen an uptick in users vying for the shoe. According to Depop’s trend forecaster Agustina Panzoni, searches for “Birkenstock Clog” on the app were up 129 percent in Q3. In the past six months, searches for “Birkenstock” increased by 168 percent. Panzoni suggests that much of this has to do with the trend cycle, noting that the shoe was one of the biggest early 2000s trends, and with current Y2K obsessions, this comeback comes as no surprise. Additionally, the forecaster attributes the clog’s chokehold on consumers to recent TikTok endorsements, as well as celebrities like Kendall Jenner, Kaia Gerber, and Dakota Johnson, who’ve all been seen sporting it.
Naturally, with such a spike in interest, prices—whether they’re set by the brand itself or by others—are bound to increase. On StockX, the average price for the Birkenstock Boston in Taupe was $182 for 2022, marking an 18 percent increase from its regular retail price of $155. And while Depop isn’t able to disclose figures, a quick browse through the app will show plenty of new suede Boston clogs selling for almost twice as much as the original rate.
What is it about these unassuming shoes that have made them so appealing? Could it be the classic clog silhouette and the neutral hues of the leather and suede materials? Is it the orthopedic footbed that has us digging our heels in? Could it simply be comfort? Birkenstock’s CEO, Oliver Reichart, says it’s all of the above. However, the urgency comes from a need to be free of restrictive clothing. “When everyone was at home, people still cared about their desk, their chair, their jogging bottoms and, yes, their footwear,” he shares. “Birkenstock was a part of this self-reinvention, and the casualization of workwear during the pandemic was mirrored by the mass casualization of fashion. Cynthia Lee, the vice president of sneakers, apparel, and accessories at StockX, agrees. “We started to see more of our customers embrace comfort-oriented footwear like slides and clogs in 2020, and just a year later, brands like Birkenstock and Crocs were among the fastest-growing brands on the StockX platform,” she offers, adding that the trend has only accelerated in 2022.
Can we expect the Birkenstock Boston to maintain its current cult following into the new year? Odds are, probably. Panzoni mentions that the clog is perfect for those who loved the coastal grandmother aesthetic of last summer, saying it’s the perfect shoe to continue championing the look while embracing cozier winter vibes. Lee shares the same sentiment—especially in the resale market. “Given the success the brand has seen over the last few years, I think we should expect that Birkenstock will continue to leverage collaborations and scarcity to drive heat on both the primary market and the secondary market,” she says.
The proof is in the numbers: Birkenstock clogs won’t be going anywhere for 2023, especially as more and more people get their hands on them. If you happen to find a pair in your size and the price is right, I suggest getting them while you can. While you’re at it, if you see a pair in a size 37, be sure to grab ‘em (you know where to find me!).


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Behind the Scenes of a Jordan Spieth Commercial
AT&T will debut a new “Your Network” commercial featuring members of Jordan's team during the Masters. It was filmed earlier this year in his hometown of Dallas. Check out a behind the scenes video, plus get a look at the commercial and even see it before it airs.
Also, click here to read Jordan's latest blog about the Masters.


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Tuesday Nov 29 2011
Auburn gets glowing
By: Krissi Khokhobashvili, Journal Features Editor
Festival of Lights a beloved tradition
Black Friday may have seen thousands flock to stores, willing to fight tooth and nail for that good deal, but Auburn residents know the Christmas season doesn’t officially start until Saturday. That’s when more than 100 floats light up for the Festival of Lights Parade, bathing a city full of revelers in a megawatt glow. Parade committee chair Steve Galyardt said 15,000 to 20,000 people turn out each year to see the spectacle. “It’s the celebration of our holiday season,” Galyardt said. “Not only the opening of businesses saying, ‘Please come shop,’ but it’s family coming together.” The 90-minute parade starts at 5:30 p.m. and makes its way from Cherry Avenue and Lincoln Way to the Gold Country Fairgrounds, but craft and food vendors will line the streets and shops will host open houses starting as early as 2:30 p.m. As usual, Santa Claus can be found at the Monkey Cat restaurant, and many businesses will offer one-day sales in honor of the event. Alex Rodriguez, who helped coordinate vendors, said there are plenty of options for hot drinks and goodies along the parade route. Hot dogs, sausages and bratwurst will be for sale, along with espresso, paninis, hot chocolate and kettle corn. The Placer High School Boosters will sell pulled pork as well. The vendors will be ready to start selling about an hour before the parade. Rodriguez said food will be for sale in Central Square, High Street, Hillmont Street and across from the high school. “We’ve even got the Boosters walking around selling glowsticks,” Rodriguez added. This year’s grand marshal is not just one person – Think Auburn First has been given the title, and Kevin Hanley, chairman and co-founder, said the organization is honored to take the lead of the parade. “We have a very strong community in Auburn, and you can see that with the Festival of Lights Parade. You have high school bands, the fire department and various organizations that make a really strong local community, and Think Auburn First is really consistent with that.” Hanley said one of the main views of Think Auburn First is that money spent locally stays in the community for such necessities as paving streets and paying law enforcements officers, and in turn many local businesses support philanthropic community organizations, many of which can be seen in the parade. One of those is Hope Lutheran Church of Penryn, which also has a kindergarten-through-eighth-grade school on-site. Pastor Jon Kehren said volunteers will assemble the float designed by parishioner Nancy Leeman. It boasts a miniature church and school building, and students will ride on the float while teaching staff walks alongside it. “We want to support the community,” Kehren said. “It’s a wonderful parade. We also wanted to help bring an uplifting message of Christmas by participating.” The parade is nonprofessional, meaning it is not officially judged, but Galyardt said a committee goes to the Borland Way staging area before the parade to select parade winners, who will each receive a plaque. Awards are given in several different categories, based on creativity and use of lights, and floats must express this year’s theme: “Auburn, It’s a Wonderful Life … in Lights!” Galyardt said the parade features 110 floats, all of which must light up – “That’s the magical part,” he said. Whether it’s a business, a church group or a philanthropic organization, the floats come together to create a dazzling display. “It’s what made me fall in love with Auburn,” Galyardt said, recalling how when he moved here in 2001, he took his son to watch the parade. “I sat out there and watched the parade with my son and thought, ‘This is the town I’ve been looking for. This is a magical place.” Reach Krissi Khokhobashvili at email@example.com. ----------------------------------- Festival of Lights When: Saturday, Dec. 3. Outdoor vendors and business open houses start as early as 2:30 p.m.; parade starts at 5:30 p.m. Where: Parade runs from Cherry Avenue and Lincoln Way to the Gold Country Fairgrounds Cost: Free Information: Auburn Chamber of Commerce, (530) 885-5616, www.auburnchamber.net.


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Are Calorie Counts on Nutrition Labels Making Us Fat?
Misleading calorie counts on nutrition labels may be steering us toward energy-dense, processed foods.
Maybe not, says Harvard University scientist Richard Wrangham, who believes that many of the official numbers are wrong. "Where foods are highly processed, such as white bread or a Twinkie, the calories on the package are probably reliable," he says. "But for less processed foods, you're probably getting fewer calories than the official caloric value." Wrangham thinks some numbers may be off by 30 percent or more.
That's because the calories listed on labels are determined by a method that ignores whether the food has been processed, cooked, or otherwise made more easily digested. Wrangham says the physical structure of food influences how much of it the body absorbs. Foods that are harder to digest, like chewy whole grains or


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Facebook user activity for the months of January-February decreased by 0,5%, ONA reports citing Global Stats statistics center.
According to information for April 1, market share of Facebook in Azerbaijani social media was 39%, which is 10,3% more the period of the previous year. Facebook occupies first place among users of social media according to the popularity.
The second popular social network is Pinterest, user activity of which increased by 24%. Market share in Azerbaijani social media market of this social network was 19,5% by April 1, 2019. This is 3 times more than the analogous period of the last year.
Activity of Youtube users is decreased by 0,7% for January-March months. According to the information for April 1, Youtube took 3rd place with 18,2% social media market share, which is 53% less than the same period of the last year.
Market share of the other social media networks: Instagram - 10,8%, Twitter – 7,1%, VKontakte – 1,78%, Google+ – 1,75%.


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According to Michel-Edouard, the government will ban the sale of fuel at cost price from August, as part of the Climate Law. What is it really ?
For several months, brands and distributors have multiplied promotional operations, in order to help motorists while the price of fuel is still very high. It is also a way of attracting customers to supermarkets, as is particularly the case for Casino, which offers a discount on the price of petrol and diesel, taking the form of a voucher to spend the next day in the store. We also think of Leclerc, known in particular for his offer ” fuel at cost“. The concept is simple: the distributor is cutting back on its margin in order to reduce the price paid by customers. Except that, according to Michel-Edouard Leclerc, director of the company, this little gift will soon no longer be possible.
#Driving Do you practice eco-driving? This reduces your fuel bill, reduces the impact of your vehicle on the environment and improves safety… Find some advice in the “Mobili’Mag”! https://t.co/k84KHeYjOJ
— Radio VINCI Autoroutes (@Radio1077) June 8, 2022
The fault of the Climate law
The boss indeed spoke at the microphone of France 2, and affirmed that ” from August 22 for the start of the holidays, I will no longer have the right, it’s the Climate law“. He goes on to point out that “ it wasn’t stupid, the idea was to promote fossil fuels more (…) Even if there is an ecological emergency, I think we have to let people like us sell cheaper fuels , and to be able to say it“. But the Climate lawwhich will effectively come into force next August, will it really prevent the sale of fuel at cost price?
How many years have these people not paid out of their own pocket for a full tank of car fuel?
How long has it been since they paid for their electricity, gas and water consumption themselves?
These people, first assisted in France, don’t give a damn about the fate of the beggars.
— Verlaine (@__Verlaine__) June 7, 2022
A different measure
In reality, this is not really the case, and distributors will still be able to offer this operation. On the other hand, what this law will prohibit is to promote fossil fuels, and therefore fuel, as is already the case for cigarettes. An implementing decree is currently being drafted, in order to define the energies concerned and the types of advertising prohibited.
I learned from a reliable source that the price of fuel would rise slowly to 3 euros by the end of the summer. Thanks micron…
— Phil Dub 🇨🇵 (@PhilDub12) June 7, 2022
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Bread Winner: Kiki’s Kitchen finds instant success in baking loaves to sell to stores and at the Clemmons Farmers Market
Published 12:10 am Thursday, June 8, 2023
Keishia Rodriguez didn’t expect to be known as the “Bread Lady” at the Clemmons Farmers Market.
Even though she has been cooking and baking most of her life, Rodriquez hasn’t been doing bread long.
“This is the first four months I’ve been doing this as a business,” said Rodriquez, who runs Kiki’s Kitchen and is one of the first-year vendors at the weekly Saturday morning market on the grounds of the Jerry Long Family YMCA.
In her first two appearances at the market, Rodriquez sold over 100 loaves each time.
Doing this wasn’t part of the plan when she decided to put her bread on social media, but everything changed when an employee at Clemmons Country Store bought a loaf and shared it with Sherrie Billings, the store owner.
“That day, she called me three times saying I need your bread in my store,” Rodriguez said. “So that’s the reason I have a business. I said, ‘I just bake this in my house.’ I started to sell to her, and word got out. So I went into a commercial kitchen in Pfafftown in February, and then some more stores contacted me.”
Now, in addition to Clemmons Country Store, her bread can be found in these locations: Buie’s Market in Winston-Salem, MawMaw’s Market and Junktique General Store in Kernersville, Honeybell’s Old Country Store in Lexington and The Just Plain Country Store in Walnut Cove. More stores are in the process of joining the crowd.
Kiki’s Kitchen also does desserts, grazing tables and more — providing wholesale, retail and catering in the Winston-Salem area.
At the Clemmons Farmers Market, there is typically a steady stream of customers eager to pick up sourdough bread loaves of favorites such as Jalapeño Cheddar (the best seller), Poppy Seed Onion (her personal favorite), Cinnamon Raisin and many more.
Actually, the overall business was started in 2020 when Rodriguez got laid off from her full-time job in the medical field due to COVID. She turned to her passion for “cooking, feeding and loving people” to work for her family, creating Kiki’s Kitchen. That included family dinners, catering, empanadas, Spanish food and baked goods.
However, when she contracted COVID in December of that year, everything was put on hold, including her dream of large-scale catering when she lost her sense of taste and smell.
After being reawakened in a church sermon in January when she was challenged “to get up off your talents and gifts God gave you, and not just me but as a family, which is servitude, feeding and loving, so I’m like, ‘OK, God,’ and I went home because I felt like I had been pushed out of my chair at church. And I put the bread on Facebook. That’s all I did, and here we are.”
While Rodriquez continues to work in clinical research with a primary focus in cardiology and has more than 23 years in the field, this latest endeavor includes Henry, her husband of more than 25 years, and Gabriel, who the couple adopted when he was three. Gabriel is now almost 16. (They have four older children and seven grandchildren.)
“(Gabriel) strives for greatness and has totally fallen in love with this bread business and loving on people with his gifts,” Rodriguez said. “We are three people with a desire to serve and love people with food.”
Rodriguez has been what she calls the primary breadwinner (pun intended) for years since Henry was diagnosed with stage-4 cancer in 2009. Although, as she says, “he and God won the battle,” Henry was left disabled with heart failure and other health issues.
Both Henry and Gabriel do their part to help out with the business. In fact, Rodriguez commented that Gabriel sometimes “gets up at 4 a.m. before school and helps bake bread.”
She broke down the details of an ordinary week to prepare for store deliveries and the farmers market.
“We bulk bake on the weekends,” Rodriguez said. “Saturday night, we make the dough, and Sunday morning before church, roll dough out into the flavors. Sunday night, we bake, and it gets delivered on Monday to the stores. Then on Tuesday night, we make dough, and on Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. before I have to go in to work, we roll out the loaves. Wednesday night, we bake and take him to church. We come back and pack up the cool bread, and then it gets delivered on Thursday. We only deliver twice a week. We have to buy extra time in the kitchen to prepare for (the farmers market), but our bulk is Tuesday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, so the bread hits the shelves less than 12 hours out of the oven. It’s God’s story. I’m just here to share it.”
Rodriquez said she would like to do other things, but there aren’t enough hours in a day.
“I want to do some pastries, but the bread keeps us so busy,” she said. “It’s just hard to find the time doing all of this between a 40-hour job and taking care of my family. It’s not about me. But I did hear God tell me I had to do the hard. So I’m here doing the hard.”
The original sourdough bread is made with six ingredients — distilled water, potatoes, sugar, oil, salt and KA Special Patent Flour.
“Our bread starts with a potato-based starter that naturally ferments wild yeast,” Rodriquez said, adding it is all handmade with no preservatives.
Even without a sense of taste and smell, she can make bread because it’s a “scientific recipe.”
The bread lady, Henry and Gabriel plan to be at the farmers market 10 Saturdays this year.
“We’re moving too fast already,” she said about the hectic schedule. “We’ll be here at least once a month. We’ll see where it takes us. There are blessings in this. It isn’t about the money. God has been so good to us.”
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In addition to Kiki’s Kitchen, there are 10 other new vendors in 2023, including Sunny Dayz Plant Nursery.
Gwen Rominger and her husband Brad, who has a background in landscaping, both grew up on farms and have been around plants their entire lives, but they just started their business in Davidson County — off Frye Bridge Road in Arcadia — in 2022.
“We have wanted to do this forever until last year, when we finally said, ‘Let’s just do it. We’re not going to get any younger,'” Rominger said. “(Brad) would do custom cabinets, and he kind of wanted to get out of that. He actually manages the nursery during the week. I work for a law firm, so I’m doing my thing for now, and we’re hoping to grow it.”
They got the scoop about the Clemmons Farmers Market through a previous vendor and have been pleased with the decision to be a part of it.
“We have stayed pretty busy,” Rominger said. “We’re happy to be here.”
Sunny Dayz has “a little bit of everything” at the market, she said, including shrubs and trees, which “usually have the most dramatic impact on landscaping.”
The nursery in Arcadia has a 24 X 48 greenhouse and offers a variety of flowers, including perennials and annuals, trees, shrubs and vegetable plants.
The Clemmons Farmers Market, which is open from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. each Saturday and runs through Oct. 7, has grown in popularity since moving to the present location at the Jerry Long Family YMCA in 2020 with 45 accepted vendors this year, including 14 of those being artisan vendors, and a waiting list to join.


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There’s been much to unpack about the fashion industry’s connection to the the black experience within the past month, and it hasn’t been an easy discussion. Recent milestones have included the first black photographer to shoot a Vogue cover, the exposure of widespread challenges faced by black people in the industry, and Nike’s affiliation with Colin Kaepernick as the face of its anniversary campaign — all of which have felt like meaningful, collective steps toward diversity.
Those small victories fueled a celebratory feeling at Harlem Fashion Row’s awards gala on Tuesday night at the Capitale in New York. Co-hosted by Nike and LeBron James, the event was a black-tie dinner, fashion show, and awards ceremony all in one — and it ended with a surprise unveiling of James’s latest Nike shoe: the first performance LeBron sneaker for women, and the first designed by women.
The three African-American fashion designers who created the shoe — Undra Celeste, Kimberly Gibson, and Fe Noel — presented their individual collections in a runway show at the start of the Harlem Fashion Row event. In the early stages of the sneaker’s production, they sat down with James to discuss his personal influences and decided to focus on the theme of strong African-American women as the basis of their design. James echoed the sentiment onstage at the gala during the unveiling, and thanked his mom: “Because of you, Gloria James, I am able to give back — her sense of pride and sense of strength.”
The evening’s awards and speeches celebrated industry heavyweights like Bethann Hardison, stylist Jason Rembert, and legendary Harlem designer Dapper Dan. “I’ve never been honored,” Dan told the Cut after his speech. “Tonight makes up for all those years that I missed. It’s like all of this is coming together, like two parallel universes coming together.”
Founded by Brandice Daniel over a decade ago, Harlem Fashion Row champions multicultural and emerging fashion designers by giving them a runway to present their collections at New York Fashion Week. Watch the short film below to see how the HFR x LEBRON 16 came together.


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ATLANTA, United States — Whole Foods Market has opened a standalone restaurant in the US, as it continues to experience a downturn in its fortunes.
The Roast, a freestanding Brazilian Churrasco-inspired restaurant in Atlanta, offers customers fast-casual convenience combined with Whole Foods Market’s longstanding principles. Much like the produce sold across the organic grocer’s stores, every ingredient used at The Roast meets rigorous quality standards and is free of artificial flavours, colours, sweeteners, preservatives and hydrogenated fats.
Having struggled with a loss of brand identity over the last few years, Whole Foods’ latest move is unlikely to do little to alter customer perception. However, it could hint at a new future for the business –– and in the midst of a two-year sales slump, it’s a route that’s worth exploring
With Kroger, Wal-Mart, Costco and a host of other retailers having entered the organic market in recent years, when it comes to groceries Whole Foods’ position had changed dramatically. Coupled with mounting pressure from shareholders to boost profits, the company has been forced to experiment with a number of new initiatives of late.
In addition to Whole Foods 365 — the brand’s affordable store concept, which launched in 2016, in an attempt to extend its offerings to a broader audience— operationally the business has also started to use customer data to improve how it stocks its products.
Read more: Whole Foods 365 Concept To Open In New York
According to Bloomberg, the flailing grocery chain is currently focusing on relocating smaller stores to bigger nearby locations, with a view to create flagships that double as dining destinations. It’s a strategy that rests on building emotional connections with customers, and one that has the potential to go hand in hand with the standalone restaurant concept.
“We’re not making these changes randomly— it’s very data-driven,” explained CEO, John Mackey in an interview. But despite the company’s attempts at innovation, having lost over 14 million customers to competitors will make regaining a foothold in the market tougher than ever.


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Most runners have a favorite (and sometimes expensive!) pair of running sneakers, but avid marathon runner Alex Ramsey has decided to forgo shoes altogether.
In a recent HuffPost Live conversation, Ramsey explained that he was spending around $300 on running shoes a year. While barefoot running is certainly not for everyone, in 2010, Ramsey put down his shoes in favor of the barefoot movement.
As he made the transition, he had to change his expectations about running barefoot, he said. His mile time nearly doubled while he found his rhythm. "I was dramatically slower, so I had to learn patience," he told host Nancy Redd. "I definitely embraced that aspect of barefoot running and was able to naturally shift into my own body mechanics. For me, personally, there's something intrinsic about the embrace and the touch of the ground ... and it's through that inward movement that I'm able to land lightly."
Since going barefoot, Ramsey has a new goal: to run across the United States without shoes.
"It's something that's inspired me to really feel the whole nation, from West Coast to East Coast," Ramsey said. "In this way it feels the most natural, and I'm ready to take on that adventure in my life."
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Increased truck sales led to a one per cent rise in the number of new motor vehicles sold in May, to 121,348. Statistics Canada notes new-vehicle sales have been on the rise after falling sharply in the latter part of 2008. But the agency reports preliminary industry data indicate the number of new motor vehicles sold fell about one per cent in June.
Sales of new trucks (minivans, sport-utility vehicles, light and heavy trucks, vans and buses) were up 2.2 per cent to 61,392 in May. Truck sales exceeded passenger car sales in May for only the fourth time in the last 10 years. The number of new passenger cars sold in May was down 0.3 per cent, totalling 59,956 vehicles.
Higher sales were recorded in seven provinces in May. The main contributor to the increase in Canada was a two per cent gain in Ontario. The largest percentage increase occurred in Nova Scotia (8.5), where sales rose for the fourth straight month.
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India and Australia are looking to finalise an early harvest agreement in the next 30 days and this pact is likely to cover most areas of interest that both the countries have, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said on Thursday.
Australian Trade Minister Dan Tehan is in India on an official visit to advance talks for the proposed free trade agreement, officially dubbed as the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA).
The two sides have agreed to conclude the long-pending CECA by the end of 2022. Under an early harvest agreement, two trading partners significantly reduce or eliminate customs duties on a limited number of goods and relax norms for promoting trade in services. CECA includes expanding the scope of the early harvest pact.
'I can assure you that you have a very very strong partnership in the making which will be finalised over the next 30 odd days. That is the kind of aggressive timelines that Minister Tehan and I have set for our teams today.
'I can assure you that both the teams are going to have sleepless nights in the next 30 days and I am quite confident that we will come up with some very exciting news for businesses of both the countries,' Goyal said at the dinner meeting hosted here in the honour of the Australian trade minister.
He said that it will be the fastest negotiated FTA that has ever been done by India or by Australia.
Early harvest agreement 'covers a very wide span of issues and in some sense covers most areas of interest that both countries have,' he said adding few sensitive issues would remain for the CECA, 'which we would hope to complete over the next 12 or 18 months after the early harvest gets into operation'.
Speaking at the occasion, Tehan said that: 'we want a quick but high quality agreement'.
He said that both the countries are on the cusp of about 30 days of hard work which ultimately could lead to something which is truly historic.
He added that increasing cooperation in the education sector is beneficial for both sides and they can look at signing mutual recognition agreements for the sector.
Goyal further said there are substantial opportunities in different sectors such as mining, pharma, education, renewables, railways, gems and jewellery, tourism, defence, textiles, gaming, agriculture and edutech. The bilateral trade between the nations stood at USD 12.3 billion in 2020-21, as against USD 12.63 billion in 2019-20.
India's main exports to Australia are refined petroleum, medicaments, railway vehicles including hover-trains, pearls and gems, jewellery, made up textile articles, while major imports are coal, copper ores and concentrates, gold, vegetables, wool and other animal hair, fruits and nuts, lentils and education related services.
India and Australia will sign an MoU to increase cooperation in the tourism sector on Friday.


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Intel and Hitachi-GST to Push SSDs onto Enterprise Markets
Intel Corp. and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) late on Monday disclosed plans to jointly develop and deliver Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) enterprise-class solid-state drives (SSDs) for servers, workstations and storage systems. Intel will concentrate on entry-level SSDs, whereas Hitach-GST will focus on enterprise-class solutions.
“We understand the needs of today's enterprise customers and are committed to delivering breakthrough products that increase their data center performance and reduce total cost of ownership,” said Shinjiro Iwata, executive vice president of strategic business operations at Hitachi GST.The two companies will work together exclusively to deliver enterprise SSDs with SAS and FC interfaces, with the first products expected to be available in early 2010.
Hitachi GST will continue to provide its OEM customers with a comprehensive portfolio of enterprise storage products that includes traditional HDDs and forthcoming SSDs. Intel will continue to develop, market and sell its award-winning product lines of high-performance SATA SSDs.
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When a crisis strikes, it’s comforting to know that you can call 9-1-1 and have a trained call taker direct emergency services to come to your aid. Some British Columbians, however, may need a refresher on what an “emergency” is.
According to E-Comm, BC’s largest 9-1-1 centre, plenty of mundane complaints were dialed in to their call centres, clogging up potential lifelines.
Call taker Heather Andrews said that the number one call this year was someone complaining about customer service at a business, according to E-Comm’s top 10 list of 9-1-1 headscratchers this year.
“This type of call ties up our ability to help people with real emergencies,” said Andrews. “Dealing with a complaint about the opening hours of a restaurant is a call that doesn’t belong on 9-1-1.”
Meanwhile, Call taker Kayla Ryan said she had to deal with calls about a retailer not accepting a return of shoes without their original box.
“Most people use 9-1-1 responsibly,” said Jasmine Bradley, E-Comm Corporate Communications manager. “But calls such as those on this year’s headscratcher list waste valuable emergency resources that would otherwise be available to someone who’s health, safety or property was in jeopardy or a crime was in progress.”
E-Comm’s top 10 reasons not to call 9-1-1 in 2018
- To complain a local fast food restaurant wasn’t open 24-hours-a-day, as advertised
- To complain a store won’t take shoes back without the original box
- To complain that a gas station attendant put the wrong type of gas in their car
- To report a rental company provided the wrong-sized vehicle for a customer’s reservation
- To report a restaurant wouldn’t redeem a customer’s coupon
- To ask for help turning off their car lights
- To report their vehicle’s windshield wipers had stopped working
- To find out where their car had been towed
- To report a lost jacket
- To ask if the clocks move forward or backward during the spring time change
E-Comm receives approximately 1.45 million calls every year to 9-1-1, accounting for approximately 92% of all of BC’s 911 calls. E-Comm is reminding callers that any time a 9-1-1 line is taken up for the reason that does not require immediate action from emergency services, lives could be at risk.


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There’s an analyst fight going on in Micron Technology right now.
Cramer had recommended the stock a couple of weeks ago, saying Micron was making a smart switch away from its commodity DRAM memory product and into the hot-right-now Flash memory. The move has generated moneymaking deals like that with Apple , which uses Flash in its iPads and iPhones. In just that short time since Cramer gave the nod, MU is up 17 percent.
There are analysts who agree with him, like those from Stern Agee and UBS who upgraded Micron. But just yesterday their counterpart at Avian downgraded the stock, citing concerns that the weight of that lagging DRAM business would be so great the Flash profits wouldn’t matter.
Who’s right? Cramer went deep into the company’s business, and the analysts’ opinions, to find the answer. Watch the video for his full report.
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With a strong quarter expected in the automotive sector, Citi advised clients Monday to pay close attention to margins and full-year financial outlooks.
The industry got a boost from rising North American vehicle production and relatively stable European production, along with reasonable commodity costs and currency exchange rates, points out analyst Itay Michaeli. However, auto companies were hurt by slower vehicles sales in China and South America, falling auto prices in Europe and ongoing concerns about the global economy, as well as high oil prices."
How those companies operated in both environments will separate the better performers and could point to how companies will fare in a more challenging environment.
"We've seen dispersion of performance driven mainly by individual margin performance," Michaeli wrote over the weekend.
"Valuations remain low with investors looking for signs of stability in Europe, margin progress in North America, improvement in light truck mix and cash deployment."
Michaeli pointed to Lear Corp., Delphi Automotive PLC., Ford Motor Co. and BorgWarner Inc. as companies that could post better-than-expected results, with the suppliers potentially sticking by or raising full-year outlooks.
In addition, while results at Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. could be "messy," its management will likely stick with its guidance for the full fiscal year, he said.
Meanwhile, it's less likely that Magna International Inc., American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings Inc., General Motors Co., Meritor Inc. and Tower International Inc. will impress investors much, Michaeli said.
The analyst said that while several of those five companies will probably announce strong quarterly results, investors already expect them to and they will be less likely to boost their 2012 profit predictions.
In midday trading, Lear shares fell 61 cents to $42.55; Delphi dropped 33 cents to $31.54; Ford fell 4 cents to $11.38; BorgWarner dropped 68 cents to $79.91 and Goodyear lost 10 cents to $11.14.
Meanwhile, Magna fell 75 cents to $45.15; American Axle dropped 15 cents to $10.29; GM lost 62 cents, or 2.6 percent, to $22.98; Meritor fell 19 cents, or 2.9 percent, to $6.29 and Tower tumbled 64 cents, or 5.7 percent, to $10.60.
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2028 Lamborghini Lanzador at Pebble Beach
Ant’Agata Bolognese/Pebble Beach, CA, August 21, 2023 – The automotive world stood still as Automobili Lamborghini marked a groundbreaking moment at the 72nd Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. It all began with the much-anticipated debut of the 2028 Lamborghini Lanzador at Pebble Beach, a pure-electric fourth-model concept, at The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering. But the real spectacle was yet to come, as the Lanzador made its grand public appearance on the Concept Lawn at Pebble Beach. This event provided a curated glimpse into the future of the automotive industry, and Lamborghini’s electrifying vision took center stage.
A Visionary Milestone
Stephan Winkelmann, Chairman and CEO of Automobili Lamborghini, captured the essence of this momentous occasion, stating, “Presenting the fully-electric Lamborghini Lanzador concept car during Monterey Car Week represents an important milestone in our company’s history and shapes our path towards decarbonization and electrification.” The positive reaction from devoted Lamborghini customers served as a testament to the allure of a purely-electric fourth series production Lamborghini.
The Lanzador: Pioneering a New Era
The Lamborghini Lanzador concept car introduces a new era for the brand. This high-ground-clearance Ultra GT with 2+2 seating embodies clear, purist, and technical design elements. It redefines performance and on-board experiences, merging the inherent power of a Lamborghini super sports car with enhanced daily drivability. The Lanzador concept promises unparalleled versatility while maintaining Lamborghini’s hallmark thrill factor.
Honoring 60 Years of Performance
To commemorate Lamborghini’s historic 60 years, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance featured a breathtaking display of Lamborghini classics in a dedicated Lamborghini 60th Anniversary class. This exhibition showcased a diverse range of significant classics, former showstoppers, and special production vehicles, paying homage to the brand’s iconic heritage.
A Tradition of Excellence
The Concours d’Elegance recognizes the world’s finest cars and the individuals who uphold the tradition of automotive elegance. Stephan Winkelmann and Mitja Borkert, Automobili Lamborghini Head of Design, both served as Honorary Judges at this prestigious event. Their expertise and dedication to automotive elegance continue to shape the future of Lamborghini.
Where Can I Learn More About the 2028 Lanzador near Austin, TX?
As Lamborghini strides boldly into the electric era, the Lanzador concept car embodies innovation, performance, and a commitment to a sustainable future. Witnessing its debut at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance was a glimpse into the thrilling future of Lamborghini, where electrification meets supercar excellence.
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Written by Marla Hardee Milling
It is time for one of our favorite features of the year, and it has been since 2013—a chance to investigate cottage businesses that started in a small kitchen or basement and morphed into a much bigger scale operation.
The businesses we chose to profile this year all have two things in common: They are based in Western North Carolina, and they have all moved production of their products to Blue Ridge Food Ventures, which is a 24/7 shared-use commercial kitchen on the Enka campus of AB-Tech.
Executive Director Smithson Mills says Blue Ridge Food Ventures (BRFV) first opened in 2005 and makes it easier for small companies to get started. “There are two main things we bring to the table,” he explains. “The first is the physical space and physical infrastructure necessary to manufacture, and the second is the technical knowledge we have to formulate products, negotiate the regulatory environment, and meet the expectations of the marketplace to allow the companies to enter with a professionally packaged product that can sell well to consumers.”
In the past 12 months, BRFV has provided space and expertise to 50 companies. While demand is high, space availability continues to open up as successful companies move on.
“Our fastest growth companies ultimately grow out of us,” say Mills. “Right now, we have three million-dollar-plus companies that are in the process of building out their own facilities or arranging their own production. When they leave, we’ll bring in smaller companies and hopefully grow them into million-plus companies. We are constantly having our hearts broken because our biggest clients leave us.”
Buchi Kombucha began using BRFV in 2009 and now has its own multi-million facility in Marshall. Mills gives a nod to this company as one of the most successful to launch from BRFV. “I think they are now the largest private employer in Marshall, and they are buying other kombucha companies around the country. They’re on a fast growth track.”
Other success stories include Smiling Harrah’s Tempeh, Lusty Monk Mustard, Roots Hummus, Vortex Donuts, and No Evil Foods. (Several of these business—among them No Evil Foods and Roots Hummus, have been featured in the pages of this magazine in the past.)
As for the five new companies we are profiling in this article—Catering By Corey, Witch I Love Your Hair!, Munki Foods, Firewalker Hot Sauce, Darby Farms—Mills predicts, “Come back in three years’ time, and one or two of them may be the next million-dollar company.”
You can bet Capital at Play will be watching.
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Fifty Dutch startups are attending the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Photo: Shaun Bruscher
By Floris van der Laan & Sietze Vermeulen
Consulate General of the Netherlands in San Francisco
When you were a child, 2020 seemed like the distant future. Cars would fly. We’d have robots in our homes. And we would travel across the Atlantic in an hour.
But as we enter the second week of 2020, we must conclude that life is still pretty ordinary.
Yet this week in Las Vegas, it feels as if the future is here. At the Consumer Electronics Show, Sin City turns into the technology capital of the world as 4,500 companies introduce their latest products and gadgets to the marketplace. It was here that Dutch company Philips presented the first-ever home VCR and the Commodore 64 computer was launched.
Fifty Dutch startups will present their latest inventions in the Netherlands Tech Square. They promise to future-proof the world by finding smart solutions to global challenges.
Take Tech Square participant Kibet Kipkemo from LoCoMoGo, who is looking forward to showing how their product is future-proofing the world of education. “LoCoMoGo is on the journey to provide every child with the opportunity to learn coding, but above all to provide them with fun,” said Kibet. “What better way to future-proof the world, than by future-proofing the next generation(s)?”
During CES, tech companies take center stage, and startups seize their opportunities to prove why their state-of-the-art technologies will make a futuristic impact. This makes CES the ideal proving ground to present next-generation Dutch innovations and future-proofing products to tech-savvy consumers and businesses.
The Dutch startups present at CES are the world’s most promising tech pioneers, showcasing their ingenuity on a global stage. From HealthTech to virtual reality, vehicle technology, and robotics, the startups from the Netherlands demonstrate more than just their inventive spirit. They demonstrate how the Netherlands is future-proofing the world, one Dutch solution at a time.
“With their smart products and services, Dutch entrepreneurs contribute to solving major global issues, such as healthcare, food scarcity, and achieving the energy transition,” said Mona Keijzer, State Secretary for Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, who is visiting CES 2020. “My role is to create global awareness for the innovations of Dutch startups. CES serves as the perfect platform, as 50 Dutch startups will showcase their latest innovations. The government is therefore supporting them to gather knowledge, raise capital, and find new partners in the United States; a market that offers great opportunities.”
CES has a major impact on participating startups, in part because many of them are positioning their product internationally for the first time. They build connections and sometimes sign business contracts.
Horst Fietje of XYZ Dynamics hopes to connect with as many relevant people as possible. “To successfully implement our sustainable mobility solution, we seek to partner up with large OEMs to serve the aftermarket needs of their customer vehicle fleets. Next to that, marketing partners can help us deploy our solution in various areas within and outside Europe.”
“At CES, we hope to spread the word about our innovation and to meet potential business partners for future growth,” said Amit Jaura of Heatbox, the first self-heating lunchbox. “We strive for ‘Freedom of Food,’ where we will enable consumers to have a hot meal anywhere, anytime.”
At the opening this year’s Netherlands Tech Square, a successful Tech-Square alumnus that is disrupting the automotive industry will be back: Lightyear. The world’s first self-charging solar car showcases the future of e-mobility, and has been named one of the best inventions of 2019 by Time Magazine.
“The Netherlands Tech Square showcases the innovative mindset of the Dutch,” said Gerbert Kunst, Consul General of the Netherlands in San Francisco. “These 50 Dutch startups spearhead how the Netherlands is future-proofing the world, they are the disrupters and stars of societal change. Among the presence of tech giants, the 50 Dutch startups stand out as innovators who are making an impact to tackle global challenges. We want them to succeed internationally and CES is an important stepping stone for them, just as is the NL Growth Labs that the Consulate General will start this year. This custom-made incubator program in Silicon Valley gives Dutch startups in different stages of growth the chance to build a network and scale in the US.”
“Every startup has something unique to offer,” said Julia Sleger of Meatable. “CES is the best stage to introduce and persuade future customers of the value of our efficiently and sustainably produced real and delicious meat.”
The Netherlands Tech Square at CES will mesmerize Las Vegas with its innovative tech that has significant societal impact.
Now that 2050 is the distant future, what products from CES2020 will have become the norm? Will all our kids learn how to code, and will mobility become truly sustainable? Visit the pioneers of the Dutch startup ecosystem, and future-proof the world with us!


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Health store retailer Canterbury Wholefoods is realising significant cost and efficiency benefits across its business following the implementation of BCP’s Accord Momentum retail system.
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BCP is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted to win an award at the 2015 Retail Systems Awards.
We are one of only four companies shortlisted in the EPoS Innovation of the Year category, based on the successful roll out of our Accord Momentum retail solution to Westmorland’s Gloucester Services operation. (more…)
Motorway services group Westmorland Ltd has rolled out BCP’s market leading Accord® Momentum EPoS solution to its newly acquired Cairn Lodge motorway services operation in Scotland in order to gain the cost and efficiency benefits the system is already delivering in other areas of its business. (more…)
BCP will be taking part in Richmond Events’ next Retail Forum in March 2013 where we will be talking to delegates about our Accord Momentum epos software solution. “It’s our first involvement with Richmond Events, but we know they have a great reputation and their forums are always well attended. We look forward to an interesting – and […]
BCP has interfaced its EPoS software solution to UK registered charity The Pennies Foundation so that retailers who use BCP’s retail software can give their customers the chance to join in and support a number of UK registered charities, including well-known names like Macmillan, Alzheimer’s Society, RNIB and NSPCC. (more…)


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July 13, 2014 marks the 77th birthday of Krispy Kreme and the Original Glazed doughnut. On July 11, in celebration of this occasion, Krispy Kreme is giving its fans the gift of a Dozen Original Glazed doughnuts for 77 cents with the purchase of any dozen Doughnuts.
In honor of National Doughnut Day, on Friday, June 6, stop in to any Krispy Kreme US or Canadian location for a free doughnut of any variety.* National Doughnut Day was established in 1938 by The Salvation Army to raise funds for people in need during the depression era, and is observed every year on the first Friday of June.
Krispy Kreme Pie Doughnuts capture the warmth, aroma, taste, and nostalgic goodness of two classic pie flavors. Krispy Kreme Key Lime Pie and new Caramel Dutch Apple Pie Doughnuts are available through May 18 at participating Krispy Kreme U.S. and Canadian locations while supplies last.
Krispy Kreme launched two new flavors of doughnuts: Krispy Kreme Mocha Kreme and Caramel Coffee Kreme. The brand’s Lotta Latte doughnuts are available at participating Krispy Kreme U.S. and Canada locations through March 30, 2014.
The coffee-flavored treats can be ordered by the dozen, or paired with a Krispy Kreme Cinnamon Dolce Latte.
Quick-serve chains across the country are rolling out Valentine’s Day promotions to attract customers for the special day and, in some cases, the entire month of February.
Inspired by the signature blends and flavors available at its doughnut and coffee shops, Krispy Kreme’s iced coffees are coming to consumers in new ready-to-drink bottles. Starting February 10, ready-to-drink varieties of Krispy Kreme Original Glazed Iced Coffee and Krispy Kreme Mocha Iced Coffee will be available at over 900 Walmart locations throughout the U.S.
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. announced that Dan Beem will be joining Krispy Kreme as senior vice president of the company and president – international later this month. Beem, age 44, will report to president and CEO Jim Morgan, and will be responsible for the company's international franchise business segment. Beem succeeds Jeff Welch, who has left the company.
Whether you're getting together with family and friends, going to a holiday party, or celebrating at the office, Krispy Kreme seasonal doughnuts can make a festive addition to a holiday gathering. The assortment of offerings includes the Snowman, Holiday Sprinkles, and Red Velvet Cake Doughnuts, available November 29 through December 30 at participating Krispy Kreme U.S. and Canada locations.
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation recognized Krispy Kreme Mexico and Krispy Kreme Philippines as its International Franchisees of the Year at its 2013 International Franchise Conference. The award recognizes the franchisees for continued excellence in customer service and product quality, leadership within the Krispy Kreme franchise community, and for growing the brand in their respective markets through innovative new product and marketing programs.
Krispy Kreme Doughnut Corporation crowned Michael Jordon Onyot of Cebu, Philippines 2013 Krispy Kreme World Barista Champion at its annual International Franchise Conference. During an intense three-day competition in Cancun, Mexico, an international panel of beverage experts, including World Barista Champion (2011), Alejandro Mendrez, awarded Mr. Onyot the grand prize based on palate, presentation, and technical execution of Krispy Kreme espressos and “specialty drinks”.


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Consumers’ Sensitive Internet Metadata Sold to DOD-Funded Researchers
December 19, 2022
In a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan, Sen. Ron Wyden revealed that Neustar, which provides recursive Domain Name System (DNS) services, sold consumers’ sensitive internet metadata to researchers funded by the Department of Defense. According to Sen. Wyden’s letter, U.S. federal agencies, including the FBI and DOJ, asked the Georgia Tech researchers to run specific queries on the data and share those findings with the government. In his letter, Sen. Wyden requested that the FTC investigate whether Neustar violated the FTC Act by failing to adequately notify its consumers that Neustar was selling their data.
EPIC has a particular interest in protecting consumer privacy and has played a leading role in developing the authority of the FTC to safeguard the privacy rights of consumers. In November, EPIC submitted comments in response to the FTC’s Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding a Trade Regulation Rule on Commercial Surveillance and Data Security. In its comments, EPIC called for the FTC to prohibit out-of-context secondary uses of consumer data, including the growing practice of data brokers providing consumer data to government agencies without a warrant.


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April 19, 2023
Brother International Australia (BIA) said it has taken a proactive approach to sustainability by launching a range of high-quality refurbished products.
Through its partnership with Circonomy, BIA is taking a stand against wastefulness by helping to create an equitable and sustainable world.
Andy O’Donnell, Director at Brother International Australia, said: “We recognise and acknowledge that the electronics industry is a significant contributor to waste, and all of us can take a leadership perspective to help minimise – through both design and circularity. That is why we are rethinking how we can keep our products in use for longer, as well as how we can support our eco-conscious customers who are looking for great value Brother products.
“As we move forward, we are committed to seeking innovative solutions and best practices to keep materials in use for longer, reducing our carbon footprint and minimising waste, while also delivering high-quality products and solutions our valued customers have come to expect.”
Ryan Swenson, CEO of Circonomy, said: “We know that Australians want to make more sustainable choices, including how they shop. Purchasing refurbished printers, such as the ones launched by Brother, is another way people can access affordable tech that is good for the planet, without compromising quality. We’re excited to be partnering with Brother on this pilot.”
In addition to the repair and troubleshooting support BIA provides, the refurbishment programme will ensure that select products that have been returned to Brother and restored by its local team to near-new condition, will then be packaged for sale and given a second life. This will enable BIA to reduce waste and use our resources more efficiently, the company added.
Daniel O’Sullivan, Head of Sales at Brother International Australia, said: “We’ve made it our mission to provide consumers with an eco-friendly and cost-effective solution when purchasing office products. By offering high-quality refurbished products, we are not only providing excellent value to our customers, but we are also taking steps to reduce waste and help the planet.”
BIA said it will have a dedicated team to evaluate and measure the pilot programme’s learnings so that by 2025, the company can strengthen and expand the initiative.
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We’ve heard solid rumours that Gainward have a fantastic new card on the way, and it’s a refresh of there most ambitious GPU to date, the AGP 7800GS. The new refresh will be known as the BLISS 7800 GS SILENT 512MB GS ”+” and guess what? It has 24 pipes which essentially means it is based on the 7900 GT core.
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AN APP has been used to help purchase a house for the first time, following a new partnership between Barclays and Savills Auctions. Barclays Pingit app was used by a homeowner to put a £23,000 deposit on a house in Mitcham, South London this month. The partnership will enable Savills Auctions customers to make a deposit by scanning a Savills QR code from within the Pingit app. “For quick, secure transactions on the go, mobile is fast-becoming a trusted method of making payments – whether from person-to-person or, as in this case, to pay a business,” said Darren Foulds, Barclays mobile banking and Pingit product director. The Barclays Pingit app has been downloaded 2.5m times since it was launched in February 2012, with the total amount of money sent using the service reaching £350m. The Centre for Economic and Business Research (CEBR) forecasts that, by 2020, 20m adults will use their mobile devices to pay for goods and services.
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Mar 16, 2022
After receiving support from the Chancellor's Innovation Fund, two professors' sustainable forestry startup is using new technology to mitigate climate change.
Mar 9, 2021
If you're teaching a course on brewing beer, and you can't find the book you want, you write it yourself.
May 20, 2019
NC State's tasty ice cream treat is now available in more locations across the state.
Mar 14, 2019
Food science pioneer Josip Simunovic is recognized by the Institute of Food Technologists.
Feb 8, 2019
While most people associate fat with junk food, many “healthy” foods contain fats as well – including fruits and nuts.
Rodolphe Barrangou receives more prestigious recognition with his election to the National Academy of Engineering.
Oct 10, 2018
Recent research outlines how near-infrared spectroscopy could be used to make cell-culture-based flu vaccine manufacturing faster and more efficient.
Jun 27, 2018
There’s something brewing in the basement of Schaub Hall. The hoppy aroma can be traced to the NC State Brewing Lab, which plans to increase production later this year.
Mar 21, 2018
Yeasts are tiny fungi – but they play key roles in producing everything from beer and cheese to industrial chemicals and biofuels.
Jan 8, 2018
A novel approach integrates existing technologies to improve biomanufacturing processes used to make everything from pharmaceuticals to fuels.
Aug 29, 2017
New technique lets brewers monitor fermentation to better control brewing time and quality of future beers.
Jul 6, 2017
A new social marketing campaign launched by NC State’s SNAP-Ed Steps to Health program encourages mothers to model healthy eating for their young children.
Jun 8, 2016
Twenty-five lucky future pitmasters were among the inaugural participants at the Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences two-day Barbecue Camp, where they learned the science of low and slow.
Mar 31, 2016
CRISPR-Cas systems are widely heralded as a new generation of genetic tools. But development of these tools requires researchers to identify the protospacer-adjacent motifs (PAMs) that unlock each system’s functionality. A new set of techniques expedites PAM identification — and early testing finds that many CRISPR-Cas systems actually have multiple PAMs of varying strength.
Aug 19, 2015
Using a vomiting device of their creation, researchers are reporting the first direct evidence that vomiting can aerosolize virus particles similar to human norovirus.


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Stan Wong’s Market Outlook
Stan Wong, portfolio manager at Scotia Wealth Management
FOCUS: North American Large Caps and ETFs
Global equities are off to a solid start for 2024 and have now rallied for nearly 15 consecutive weeks. Overall, our team at The Stan Wong Group maintains a constructive stance on equity markets for the year ahead, notwithstanding the possibility of a near-term air pocket due to some overbought technical conditions. Market breadth has notably improved since the October 2022 lows, with more than 65 per cent of constituents in both the S&P 500 Index and MSCI World Index now trading above their respective 200-day moving averages. Additionally, market participation has broadened, with sectors beyond technology and communications seeing upward momentum.
From a seasonality perspective, historical data suggests optimism for equities in election years under a first-term U.S. president. Since 1950, the S&P 500 Index has averaged a 12.2 per cent return during such years, with no instances of negative returns. We also note that the second year of a bull market for the S&P 500 Index has consistently delivered positive results, boasting an average return of 13.5 per cent over 15 observations since 1950. The widely observed “January barometer” also points to a promising outlook. Historical data reveals that after a positive January performance, the S&P 500 Index has achieved an average return of 16.8 per cent for the full year, a trend observed since 1950.
From a macroeconomic viewpoint, inflation is moderating, with year-over-year inflation in the U.S. now at 3.1 per cent, significantly lower than the 9.1 per cent peak observed in 2022. Interest rates have stabilized, with potential downward revisions by mid-year, as indicated by futures markets projecting multiple rate cuts in Canada and the U.S. Such accommodative monetary conditions have historically provided a favourable backdrop for both equities and bonds. Additionally, the U.S. recently reported a 3.3 per cent annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate for the fourth quarter, alleviating concerns of a potential recession. Lastly, the U.S. labour market remains robust, with the unemployment rate holding steady at just 3.7 per cent.
Within Stan Wong Managed Portfolios, our steadfast focus remains on identifying high-quality, secular growth companies to bolster our portfolio mandates. Sectors such as health care, consumer discretionary, and financials, along with technology companies demonstrating reasonable valuations, are favoured. Geographically, our equity allocation comprises approximately 55 per cent in U.S. equities, 30 per cent in Canadian equities, and 15 per cent in international equities. Within our fixed income allocation, we favour government and investment-grade corporate bonds with both short and medium durations. Overall, our strategic allocation is constructed to enhance returns while prudently managing risk for clients.
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Founded in 1984 and headquartered in the Netherlands, ASML is a global leader in designing and manufacturing cutting-edge semiconductor manufacturing equipment, specializing in lithography systems for advanced semiconductor chip production. ASML plays a crucial role in chip manufacturing for various applications, including artificial intelligence (AI), 5G, and automotive technology. Major semiconductor chip manufacturers, including Intel, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor, rely on ASML's products. Longer-term, the company stands to benefit significantly from the growth of AI due to the increased demand for advanced semiconductor chips required to power AI applications. As AI technology continues to advance, the demand for more powerful, energy-efficient, and specialized chips will increase, driving the need for ASML's lithography systems. This heightened demand is expected to translate into strong revenue expansion and earnings growth for the company. Last month, management reported quarterly earnings and revenue that beat analyst expectations. ASML is forecasted to achieve an annual earnings growth rate of more than 17 per cent over the next several years. The company reports its next quarterly results on April 17.
Cardinal Health is a healthcare services company engaged in the distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical products to healthcare providers such as hospitals, pharmacies and clinics. With nearly US$227 billion in forecasted 2024 fiscal year revenue, Cardinal Health’s largest customers include CVS and UnitedHealth Group. Cardinal Health effectively operates in a triopoly industry, sharing market share with McKesson (a name we also own) and Cencora, giving it significant leverage in supply negotiations and predictable cash flow. Along with McKesson and Cencora, the three comprise more than 90 per cent of the U.S. pharmaceutical wholesale industry. Longer-term, an aging population should result in greater spending volumes for prescription drugs. Today, nearly 60 per cent of all Americans regularly use at least one prescription drug and about 30 per cent use two or more. These figures are expected to rise, particularly given the fast-growing demand for diabetes and weight-loss treatment drugs. From a technical perspective, CAH shares been steadily trending higher, trading above ascending 200-day and 200-week moving averages. Cardinal Health is forecasted to achieve an annual earnings growth rate of over 15 per cent over the next several years. The Company reports its next quarterly results on May 3rd.
With projected fiscal 2024 revenue of $5.8 billion, Dollarama is Canada’s largest operator of discount retail stores with over 1,400 locations. We like Dollarama for its resilient business model and the growing consumer demand for value-priced goods. Over the years, the Company has exhibited operational efficiency and strong financial performance, including steady revenue growth and healthy operating margins. Last summer, Dollarama announced a share repurchase program for more than 13.6 million shares, demonstrating management’s commitment to shareholder value creation. The company has grown their revenue at a rate of nearly 10 per cent over the past five years and aims to expand its store count to 2,000 locations. Dollarama is forecasted to achieve an earnings growth rate of more than 17 per cent over the next several years. From a technical standpoint, DOL shares have been steadily rising in an ascending pattern, with higher highs and higher lows. The company reports its next quarterly results on April 1..
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At its annual key dealer event in Scotland in February 2010, Sony announced a new direction for its market strategy. The company has decided to stop chasing market share and intends to ensure that Sony products are sold only through retail channels which add value to them and are able to give customers a good shopping experience.
Andy Benson, commercial director of Sony UK, said: “From now onwards we are going to be a profit-focused business. We accept that we may lose some market share as a result of this but we will not be wasting money chasing it.”
Having conducted a programme of mystery shopping visits across retail outlets selling Sony products, the manufacturer concluded that the customer experience in some retail channels is unacceptably poor. Andy Benson commented: “We want retail staff to add value to our brand and not to be brand detractors. Therefore we said to our retailers if you cannot do this we would rather you don’t bother with our products.”
As a result Sony UK has introduced a new approach to its retail channels.
It consists of Selective Distribution Strategy in relation to its high-end products and Retail Activation Support which will assist retailers in demonstrating Sony’s products and communicating their unique features and benefits.
Steve Dowdle, managing director of Sony UK, explained: “We want to help our customers but we also wish to raise the bar in this respect for the rest of the industry.”
The company plans to develop tailored propositions for its different distribution channels. This may mean that some retailers will be asked to sell only lower range products.
Andy Benson confirmed that Sony will continue mystery shopping all its retailers and the ones who achieve high scores for providing high quality customer experience will be rewarded with rebates on their purchases.


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2001 National Minority Supplier of the Year
On 30th October 2001, Austin Texas, MagRabbit happily received the 2001 National Minority Supplier of the Year Award from the National Minority Supplier Development Council (NMSDC). MagRabbit was the first winner from Austin city and the only nominee for National MBE from Texas.
Harriet R. Michel, who is the President of NMSDC said: “Twelve minority businesses have been selected as regional suppliers of the year. This is a very high honor, considering there are 15,000 minority businesses across the country, all of which are eligible for the award. Three of twelve regional winners will be named national suppliers of the year”.
The NMSDC Network includes a national office in New York and 37 Regional Councils across the country. There are 3,500 corporate members throughout the network, including America’s top publicly-owned, privately-owned and foreign-owned companies as well as universities, hospitals, and other buying institutions. The Regional Councils certify and match more than 16,000 minority-owned businesses with member corporations that want to purchase their goods and services.
Providing a direct link between corporate America and minority-owned businesses is the primary objective of the National Minority Supplier Development Council, one of the country’s leading business membership organizations. It was chartered in 1972 to provide increased procurement and business opportunities for minority businesses of all sizes.
Certification is one of the most important services NMSDC provides. NMSDC certification is the most trusted and thorough examination of minority ownership status. Onsite visits and in-depth documentation reviews establish that more than 16,000 NMSDC-certified companies are at least 51% owned, operated and controlled by minority individuals and ready to do business with our corporate members.


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Why is it that the big savings of the notorious Black Friday sales lead to serious injuries and deaths? Are these “doorbuster” specials in fact an incitement for negligence, recklessness, and injury? This year’s Black Friday sales led to serious personal injuries, even fatal ones, across the country.
What’s worse, is that this is nothing new, but is becoming an unfortunate tradition. The actions, harms, and risks of the day are becoming so commonplace that one article by Time even goes as far as to call this year’s Black Friday “calm” since only one death resulted. A death resulting from sales and promotions is nothing calm or anything to breathe easily about. Yet, every year it seems that the biggest shopping day of the year is a time for people to weigh their risks of staying in or braving the risk of grave injury while doing their holiday shopping.
People should not have to fear for their lives when leaving the house to purchase new sweaters or toaster ovens for the holiday season, but somehow that has become the case. This year, the sales encroached into the Thanksgiving holiday, and so did the doorbuster fights and assaults, simultaneously to when some families were still giving thanks around the table and enjoying their holiday turkey.
Busting the door for sales means also losing sleep. Not everyone who tries to beat the clock for these sales exercises caution or is well rested. According to Time, the death that occurred was the result of a car accident. A teenage driver fell asleep at the wheel after shopping with friends during the early morning of Black Friday.
ABC News reports several other incidents of violence. In Las Vegas, a shopper was walking down the street with his TV he had just purchased when a nearby passerby shot him. At a Virginia Walmart, one man was stabbed during an argument over a parking spot. . At a Chicago area Kohl’s store, an attempted shoplifter fled from the store to his car and trapped a police officer’s arms in the car. The man took off while the officer was still caught in the door, which prompted the police to fire shots at the vehicle. Both the shoplifter and the officer were sent to the hospital, according to The Washington Times.
Sadly, counting the Black Friday injuries and death toll is becoming a game of sorts for some. According to ABC News, a few hours after Black Friday shopping sales began, Twitter saw #WalmartFights begin trending. This specific hashtag encouraged individuals to post photos and videos of people becoming violent at Walmart. Several photos included bloody noses, paramedics wheeling stretchers, and women hitting one another on the head. Footage also included security personnel wrestling shoppers to the ground. Twitter was not the only site tracking injuries and deaths. In the past few years, BlackFridayDeathCount.com was initiated to track injuries and death from the shopping day violence.
However, our Chicago attorneys understand that violence on what is supposed to be a fun shopping day is no joke. When retailers choose to open their doors early and entice shoppers with great deals, they must also consider what they must do to protect Black Friday shoppers. They are obligated to provide a safe shopping environment for patrons, so this means extra security to prevent pushing, shoving, or fighting, along with aisles free from debris, products that are easily accessible and will not fall off of shelves onto the patron, and other safety measures. Although this is a time for stores to make a profit, customer safety should always be a top priority, no matter how the big the sale or promotion may be. In fact, the larger the promotion, the more retailers should anticipate the excitement and hype that follows. When retailers fail to create a safe environment and patrons suffer serious injuries, victims may be able to take legal action to hold stores accountable.


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Skim milk does not make you lighter - whole milk has advantages
Many people prefer low-fat milk because they think it can keep them lean. However, scientists are now confessing that skimmed milk does not reduce weight. It also provides less vitamin D than whole milk.
Milk is considered a healthy natural product
Milk used to be the epitome of healthy eating. But there is now a dispute over whether milk is healthy or harmful. The natural product is said to strengthen bones and teeth, among other things, but studies may also favor diseases such as asthma. According to recent studies, milk is actually healthy. However, some experts believe that it is very important which milk is consumed. Especially when it comes to avoiding obesity.
Whole milk with health benefits
Last year, researchers in the magazine "Circulation" reported that milk with a high fat content can reduce the risk of diabetes.
In addition, a study by American scientists pointed out that whole milk could be better for pimples than skim milk.
And Canadian researchers have now found in a study that children who drink whole milk are slimmer and have higher vitamin D levels than those who drink low-fat or skim milk. The results of the study were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
Difference between healthy weight and overweight
According to the study authors, children who drank whole milk (3.25 percent fat) had a body mass index (BMI) 0.72 points lower than those who consumed 1 or 2 percent milk.
This effect could make the difference between healthy weight and being overweight, said Dr. Jonathon Maguire, pediatrician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto (Ontario, Canada).
While the study did not investigate why increased milk fat consumption is associated with a lower BMI, the results are now challenging current health guidelines. The common recommendations in America are that people should consume low-fat milk and dairy products.
High fat milk fills the children more
Children were leaner when they were saturated with high-fat milk, compared to children who drank the same amount of low-fat milk, the doctors explained. Low-fat milk can actually make children eat more calories, Dr. Maguire.
In addition, the consumption of high-fat milk in many cases means that children are likely to consume fewer snacks and other unhealthy and high-calorie foods, the researchers suspect.
Health effects of vitamin D deficiency and obesity
"Children who drink skimmed milk do not become slimmer and they do not benefit from the higher vitamin D content in whole milk," said Dr. Maguire in a message from the clinic. "Low-fat milk has two disadvantages."
A vitamin D deficiency increases the risk of bladder cancer, according to doctors. Too much body fat is also very unhealthy and can lead to various serious illnesses due to being overweight and obese.
In addition, a high BMI, for example, also seems to affect the sexual maturity of children. Another study found that a high BMI triggers early puberty.
Obesity has tripled in the past 30 years
Guidelines in the United States and Canada actually state that children should take two glasses of low-fat milk (one or two percent fat) a day.
These countries want to reduce the risk of being overweight in children. Unfortunately, obesity has tripled in the past 30 years. During the same period, the consumption of whole milk has halved, explained Dr. Maguire.
What milk children should drink
For the current study, the physicians examined the data of 2,745 children aged two to six years. Parents were asked about the size and weight of their children. This allowed the body mass index to be calculated. The experts also took blood samples to determine the children's vitamin D levels.
"We need the right answer to the question of what kind of milk our children should drink," said Dr. Maguire. (as, ad)


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Facebook Cans Spam
Facebook put up a long post today on the business blog with a veiled warning to Page owners – don’t buy likes or artificially inflate your pages. We’ll find you and punish you.
But they didn’t want to be that blatant, so they made it about the spammers instead:
We have obtained nearly $2 billion in legal judgments against spammers, and we utilize these channels when possible to remind would-be offenders that we will fight back to prevent abuse on our platform. We also limit likes per account to make spammers’ operations less efficient. When like activity gets unusually high, we take additional steps to make sure the likes are legitimate, such as asking for additional verification.